Der Stadthauptmann der Stadt Krakau Starosta miasta Krakowa (Sygn. 33)

Identifier
irn595268
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2018.45.1
  • RG-15.575M
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • Polish
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

40 microfilm reels, 35 mm

Archival History

Archiwum Narodowe w Krakowie

Acquisition

Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Source of acquisition is the Archiwum Narodowe w Krakowie, Poland, Sygn. 33. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in March 2018.

Scope and Content

Selected files of the „Der Stadthauptmann der Stadt Krakau” (Starosta Miasta krakowa; City Governor in Kraków), consist of various records like: resolutions and circular letters of the Chief offices of the Kraków district and the government of GG, circular letters of the Starosta of City of Kraków, correspondence, resolutions and announcements of the City Governor in Kraków, including the ones published in the Kraków press and on posters („Amtliche Veröffentlichungen durch Presse und Plakatierung”), police registration cards of Poles and Jews containing many detailed personal data, various official forms and prints, including antisemitic and anti-Soviet propaganda, ordinances of confiscation of houses, companies and estates, mainly belonging to Jews, 157 photographs from “the Jewish operation” in Kraków, personal files of the Jews hired by the Office of Furniture Administration (Möbelschaffungsamt), registers of Jewish apartments taken over by the Office of Houses Administration (Wohnungsamt), documents referred to estates confiscated from Jews, detailed orders of deportation of Jews from Kraków, 1941, and other documents, such as lists of Jewish shops, army accommodations, and the like.

System of Arrangement

Arranged in six subject series: 1. Regulations and correspondence of the head of the Kraków district and GG government; 2. Police registration cards (Police check-in and check-out) of Poles and Jews; 3. Copies of deportation orders for Jews issued by "Chef des Distrikts Krakau Aussiedlungsstelle" and addressed, among others, "An die Treuhandaussenstelle des Diestrikts Krakau"; 4. Photographs of "Jewish actions" (pfotographs made by the Germans); 5. Registers of Jewish residents occupied by the German housing office; 6. Displacement orders for Jews (1941), other documents.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych

Subjects

Genre

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